Something New to Keep Me Busy
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My wife is pseudo (ok, Pseudoachon) and your sketch (to me) looks like an artistic style, rather than a type of short-limb dwarfism. I like the facial expression and the line work very much.
Love to see more.
Wow, this is a great design!Here's my take on one of the ships in the book. Its actual name would give it away but I can tell you it is a Sulek class vessel. This is a pretty rough sketch but I'm quite happy with the basic design.
Is it inspired by the Star Wars Radiant VII?
http://www.phoxim.de/radiantvii/RadiantVII_05.jpg
http://www.phoxim.de/radiantvii/RadiantVII_07.jpg
http://www.phoxim.de/radiantvii/RadiantVII_04.jpg
It looks like a similar size... Nonetheless a great piece of design, for a size category of ships not usually seen in ST. I would love to see more of it.
This ship is based on a design I originally did for a Star Trek role playing game 11 or 12 years ago, which was very loosely based on a one-view schematic of a ship in the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology published back around 1980. I wouldn't totally rule out some generic Star Wars influence but there was no direct connection, no.
Also, the Radiant VII is several times larger than this ship, I'm pretty sure. Remember the main size criteria for this ship is that it had to be about as big as I could make it and still plausibly fit inside the Enterprise's hangar deck.
Vektor, at the risk of being a broken record, this stuff is amazing.
I will say one more thing, though -- if my abilities in any way rivaled yours, then I wouldn't squander them on a Star Trek fan project (with no offense intended to any of the people who are benefitting from your work).
I'd make my own world. But that's just me.
I will say one more thing, though -- if my abilities in any way rivaled yours, then I wouldn't squander them on a Star Trek fan project (with no offense intended to any of the people who are benefitting from your work).
I'd make my own world. But that's just me.
Well, I think the cat is pretty much out of the bag as to which book all of this is based on. For those of you who haven't figured it out or have simply never read the book, it's called How Much for Just the Planet by the late, great John M. Ford. It's arguably the most whimsically unique Trek novel ever written, a literary complement to epidoses like The Trouble With Tribbles or A Piece of the Action, only loonier. Yet for all its madcap cookyness, it still takes itself just seriously enough for the familiar characters to wonder numerous times if there might be "something in the water." An absolutely great story and one that I have long believed would make an excellent CG animated film.
Anyway, now that we all know what the subject of this little project actually is, here's the latest sketch hot off my Cintiq tablet:
Anybody care to take a guess what it is? And no peeking at the file name!
You'll note that this one is a bit more elaborate than my previous "sketches." I went and bought myself several books on art technique yesterday, including one called "50 Fantasy Vehicles to Draw and Paint" by Keith Thompson, which I highly reccommend. I was able to put some of those techniques to use on this latest illustration and I'm fairly happy with the results, though I definitely have a lot to learn. I'm also finding it useful on my concept sketches for detail work on the Grandeur, which will hopefully speed the remainder of the 3D modeling process.
Not sure what element from the book I'm going to tackle next. So far I've got a character, a vehicle and a prop, but I haven't done any sets or environments yet, so I might do something in that direction.
Any requests?
Anyway, now that we all know what the subject of this little project actually is, here's the latest sketch hot off my Cintiq tablet:
Anybody care to take a guess what it is? And no peeking at the file name!
You'll note that this one is a bit more elaborate than my previous "sketches." I went and bought myself several books on art technique yesterday, including one called "50 Fantasy Vehicles to Draw and Paint" by Keith Thompson, which I highly reccommend. I was able to put some of those techniques to use on this latest illustration and I'm fairly happy with the results, though I definitely have a lot to learn. I'm also finding it useful on my concept sketches for detail work on the Grandeur, which will hopefully speed the remainder of the 3D modeling process.
Not sure what element from the book I'm going to tackle next. So far I've got a character, a vehicle and a prop, but I haven't done any sets or environments yet, so I might do something in that direction.
Any requests?
Anybody care to take a guess what it is? And no peeking at the file name!
I'm going to guess--and this is just off of the top of my head--that it's a Deployable Practice Target. In fact, upon studying it closely, it looks to me like a Deployable Practice Target 02, even though it's marked #01.
Okay, I peeked.
Great job as usual Vek!
A Federation ship without a saucer?!?! Say it can't be so?
I'd also say your ship has a touch of Firefly's Serenity thrown in there as well (which I like)
Personally, I think you characterizations of the Trek crew look great, you've captured Kirk's likeness quite well.
The target box looks great but you do have a few tri's in there you need to get rid of on the corners...
A Federation ship without a saucer?!?! Say it can't be so?
I'd also say your ship has a touch of Firefly's Serenity thrown in there as well (which I like)
Personally, I think you characterizations of the Trek crew look great, you've captured Kirk's likeness quite well.
The target box looks great but you do have a few tri's in there you need to get rid of on the corners...
excellent! my favorite of the series. i missed having my copy signed by john ford several years ago, most unfortunate.
Well, looks like the Deployable Practice Target wasn't too hard to identify. Now on to something a bit more complex, the Direidi Great Hall!
This is just one possibility for what the Great Hall might look like and it's basically only a mass and structure study, not a detailed concept drawing (note the lack of doors, windows, etc.). The book describes it as follows:
My version really doesn't look much like the one on the cover of the book, but I do think it looks more like the description the author actually wrote. I keyed on the phrase, "a long glass roof ran on and on over one wing," as evidence that the Hall was intended to have more than just the one wing. I also decided to base the floor plan on a series of hexagons and use a tri-lobed style of architecture, which I might extend to other buildings and structures as well.
What do all of you think? Does this work or does it need to be something a bit more... whimsical?
This is just one possibility for what the Great Hall might look like and it's basically only a mass and structure study, not a detailed concept drawing (note the lack of doors, windows, etc.). The book describes it as follows:
My version really doesn't look much like the one on the cover of the book, but I do think it looks more like the description the author actually wrote. I keyed on the phrase, "a long glass roof ran on and on over one wing," as evidence that the Hall was intended to have more than just the one wing. I also decided to base the floor plan on a series of hexagons and use a tri-lobed style of architecture, which I might extend to other buildings and structures as well.
What do all of you think? Does this work or does it need to be something a bit more... whimsical?
^^^
I think I prefer this version somewhat.
I think I prefer this version somewhat.
